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Looking For A Google Alerts Alternative? Try Talkwalker Alerts

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Google, as both a search engine and an email provider is very popular and has users by the millions. It’s safe to say that the Google Search Engine and Gmail will never be taken off the shelves, but for Google services that are less useful for the greater masses, the same cannot be said. If Google Reader’s fate has incited you to look for an alternative for the lesser-used Google Alerts service, then you should give Talkwalker Alerts a shot. The service monitors the web for content containing keywords that you’ve entered. You can set up how frequently the alerts will be sent, what language they should be in, and whether or not the notifications should be in plain text or HTML. Read More

Cubiez Lets You Quickly Access Web Apps From Windows Taskbar

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The tradition of using web services through a web browser has lately been dwindling down due to dedicated apps for these services becoming available across most platforms. Previously, we covered a Windows application called Pokki that brings an impressive number of web apps, games and some useful tools right to your Windows taskbar for quick access. Not only does it sport a gorgeous UI, it also throws in a huge library of web apps at your disposal right in your Windows taskbar, including services like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, eBay, and whatnot. Cubiez is pretty much a Pokki clone that aims to serve the exact same purpose, in pretty much the same way. So what does it offer and how does it compare to Pokki? Let's find out after the jump. Read More

Best 150 Browser Extensions And Web Apps Of 2011 [Editor's Pick]

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Whether you use a Mac or a Windows PC, you’re still using the same internet. Your online peeves, annoyances and frustrations are similar, and you are likely to look for the same kind of services and apps. In 2011, we covered hundreds of web apps, and extensions for Chrome and Firefox. Some aimed to help you find simple solutions, like printing only relevant parts of a web page, while others helped you design webpage mockups. Here’s a round up of the best web apps and extensions we covered last year. Read More

Neiio: Import, Export & Group Contacts Across Different Platforms

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You have your life scattered across your phone, social networking accounts and emails accounts. It is possible that as new and better services emerged and you adopted them, you never managed to move your life from one application or service to the other either because work tied you down to something old or your contacts wouldn’t move on with you. Neiio is a web service that allows you to import contacts from Facebook, Google accounts and LinkedIn, organize it into groups and export it to Gmail, Yahoomail, Outlook, or download them in Excel format. The app can convert contacts in to readable file format from Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7. Additionally the app also removes duplicates found in your contacts so you don’t have to worry about them when exporting contacts. Read More

REM-I-CON: Remotely Control Multiple Chrome Browsers Across Systems

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Cross browser sync is a feature available in both Chrome and Firefox that allows you to sync your extensions, bookmarks and passwords on different systems. For those of you who have used it, you know that it is a great way to ensure all your important links are always available no matter what system you’re using. REM-I-CON is a Chrome extension that works in conjunction with its web service Secure Bucket and lets you remotely control multiple Chrome browsers from a single system. Using the browser extension, the service sends and implements commands to which ever browser you send it to. The commands that can be executed remotely are; closing all tabs and opening a new tab, deleting cookies, history, bookmarks and uninstalling extensions and apps. Read More

Mergely: Text Differentiation App To Compare & Merge Files Online

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You may have come across a lot of different text apps and software, some good some bad and others simply horrible. Difference viewer applications and software give you two windows, text input and a built-in comparison engine that will highlight the differences in the two texts. Mergely is a web application that not only allows you to differentiate text by either entering it manually, importing it from a word or text file but also lets you merge the two files you’re comparing, together. You can choose how you would like to merge each line between the two files you’re comparing. Read More

CSS Load: Create & Auto Generate CSS Code For Site Load Animations

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We’ve reviewed many CSS code generators; some that apply effects to different elements like boxes and layers or the most recent one, XEO CSS, that allow you to edit the CSS by using a visual editor and passing on coding altogether. CSS Load is yet another web application that auto generates CSS code. The code generated is meant for your site load animation. It allows you to pick site load animations from eight templates and customize its color and speed. Read More

Timerrr: Online Oven Timer Tells You When Your 60 Minutes Are Up

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Whether you’re in to baking or not, or have only vaguely heard of that room in your house called the Kitchen, you probably still know what a timer is. A timer isn’t just needed to time a boiling egg or your lap speed (that’s actually a stopwatch), they have other uses and having one on your computer might be a good idea. Timerrr is a a web application that offers you a digital version of the traditional oven timer. Granted that you there still isn’t any way to cook on your PC and that the disc drive can’t bake cookies, a timer can nevertheless be used to tell you when a specific time period has expired and you need to get started on a task. Read More

XEO CSS: HTML Editor, Visual Editor & Auto Code Generator For CSS

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There are multiple CSS code generators that allow you to add effects either to images, text or elements. These code generators are what they are and give you the CSS code only. Few of them allow you to chose how you would like to load the CSS in your HTML file. What they leave up to you is creating the HTML file and defining classes in it manually. XEO CSS is a CSS code generator and an HTML editor. It creates an HTML file and gives the option to either load classes from HTML, IDs from HTML to elment names from it. Changes to CSS are made via a visual editor and there is little or no coding involved. You can save multiple files by signing up to the service and resume editing them anytime. Read More

MyTVrss: Get Alerts When A New Episode Of Your Favorite Show Airs

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How much time do you spend online reading mail, watching videos and laughing at pictures of kittens? Probably a lot. While the internet is now a primary source of both information and entertainment, it hasn’t killed TV. Sure you may now watch most of your favorite shows online instead of in the family room, with the family on the family TV but you still watch TV in a sense. MyTVrss is a web service that lets you receive email alerts or create RSS feed for your favorite TV shows; each time a new show airs, you get an email or it shows up in your feed. The news item tells you what show, what episode number and name and what time is it airing along with which network it is airing on. Read More

Quick Screen Share – Remotely Share & Control Desktops Sans Sign In

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When collaborating remotely with either clients or colleagues, you often look for the best way to communicate with them. Whether you use messengers or web or desktop applications, you ensure that the solution is feasible for both of you. Throw in to that the need to share screens and things get complicated because screen sharing will depend on a lot of things like what program or service you use and the connection speed on both ends. A popular way for sharing screens is via Skype but if you or your colleague have a slow connection it might not work very well. Quick Screen Share is a free web application that lets you share your screen with anyone, view the other person’s screen in return and allows either of you to take control of the other person’s system. So long as your browser supports Java, this is a convenient way of sharing and remotely controlling desktops. No registration required! Read More

Feedly – News Reader That Lets You Save & View Pages Across Devices

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Internet access is in no way restricted to just your desktop anymore; tablets, phones, netbooks and notebooks allow you to go online provided you have a working connection which isn’t a big deal. All this means that you don’t have to sit down at your desk to read a really great article. One of the many ways that people keep up with what they were reading is with a unified online feed reader like Google Reader. Feedly is a web service that lets you read your RSS feed and pulls your feed directly from Google Reader. The question is, why use a reader for Google Reader? Feedly lets you add any web page to your Feedly account for reading later, without needing an RSS feed. That means pages can be bookmarked using Feedly and read later from your laptop, tablet, iPhone or Android phone. Read More

Goalstacker – List Tasks You Can Complete In Available Spare Time

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Typical to-do list managers help you plan important tasks over a span of days, weeks or months; they help you remember what needs to be done and to prioritize tasks. One slight pitfall of prioritizing is that there will always be certain tasks that might never get done because there were always other more important ones. Goalstacker is a to-do list manager and time management tool for those tasks that never get their turn. The web service allows you to add as many tasks as you want; each task is created with a time estimate of how long it will take to complete. When you find you have some spare time on your hands, you tell the service how much time you have to kill and it will list all tasks that you can get done in that time. Read More

Trello – An Online Pinboard For Task Organization & Collaboration

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Trello is an online task management application that lets you create virtual boards that you can save lists to. These virtual boards (think virtual pin boards) allow you to add lists to any board, lists aren’t just your regular ‘things to-do’, they are smart lists that allow you to add attachments, create checklists, assign tasks and vote up a task to emphasis its importance. The web application is free and allows you to add members, create an Organization and share them either with just members or with anyone. Read More

Romulist – Get Email Reminders For Redundant Monthly Tasks You Forget

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Routines may be boring but they make it easier to get your daily tasks done in minimum time and without forgetting anything but this only applies to a daily routine. If you have something that you do weekly or even monthly, there is a high chance that you’ll forget about it. To put it simply; you forget chores but you rarely forget movie night. Romulist is a web service that acts as a task manager for mundane monthly tasks like paying the rent or making the minimum on your credit card. You can set reminders for just about anything. The reminders can be set for any day of the month and you can decide how far in advance you would like to receive a reminder. Read More

Crunch.fm – Stream Audio From Songs On YouTube & Share On Twitter

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There are multiple ways of sharing music on Twitter; popular music streaming services allows you to tweet what you’re listening and a vast majority of Twitter users share music via YouTube. If you’ve ever just wanted to share a song from YouTube but not the video, you can use Crunch.fm. It’s a free web service that searches for songs from YouTube, extracts and plays the audio only and lets you share it on Twitter. The service lets you search by either the artist name or the song. The artist search will turn up any random song by the artist. Read More

ifttt – Set Conditions To Trigger Activity From One Service To Another

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There is a multitude of widgets, apps and services that allow you to link accounts on different services. Many of them are extremely useful and work smoothly but just because you’ve got a handful of great apps or services that link two accounts seamlessly doesn’t mean that they’re all as good. What’s more is that you don’t get to choose what information will be shared between two accounts; it’s a take it or leave it bid that you sign up for. ifttt (If This Then That) is a web service that lets you connect 35 accounts such that activity on one account will trigger activity on another. The service is like creating a command loop, should one condition be fulfilled on one account, it will trigger an activity in another account. The condition/trigger, activity and accounts are defined by you. Read More

Protocol.By – Let People Know The Best Way To Get In Touch With You

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The average internet user has one email account and uses two social networks, which all mean there’s more than one way to get in touch with someone. Whether you send out a lot of email, got an online resume or showcase your portfolio on a blog, you do it so people can find you and get in touch with you easily. Protocol.By is a web service that lets you tell everyone how to easily get in touch with you; it provides you a link to add, to either your email signature, website, blog etc., that lists all the ways to get in touch with you. You can add an email address, phone number, Twitter account, Facebook profile, Skype name, LinkedIn profile, Fax number, Voicemail or Gtalk ID among other ways to contact you. Read More

Spur – Check If Your Website Conforms To Design Basics

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If you’re either a designer or run a website, your life at one point might have been ruined by phrases like ‘make it pop’ and ‘edgy’ etc. Sure they mean something to both designer and website owner but trying to understand what exactly it means can often make you miss out on the basics of a web design. Spur is a web application that helps you check if you’ve covered everything there is to cover on design basics. The app itself doesn’t run an analysis on your design, rather it provides you tools to analyze the design for yourself. Read More

ZangZing – Import Images From Photo Sharing Services & Share In Groups

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When Google Plus came out many developers began creating extensions and services that would facilitate importing pictures from Facebook, Flikr etc., to Picasa. Whether there was any point to it all or not is another story but it makes you realize that not all your photos are on Facebook. Some are on other services like Imgur, Flickr, Photobucket and of course, in your computer. If you think about it, some of those precious photos might be in your friends’ accounts and not even in yours. ZangZing is a a web service that lets you pull photos from multiple image sharing services and add them to an album to share on either Facebook or Twitter, or via email. The service is meant to make photo sharing easy by allowing you to import images from all the different accounts you may have uploaded them to, from a single platform.

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